Today's problems - like "AI" systems that replicate existing biases; decisions too opaque to check whether they're based on protected characteristics; and systems with higher error rates for some minority group - are about 75% politics/advocacy.
After all, no matter how good your solutions to those problems, you've got to persuade companies to adopt them voluntarily - or legislators to force them to.
Today's problems - like "AI" systems that replicate existing biases; decisions too opaque to check whether they're based on protected characteristics; and systems with higher error rates for some minority group - are about 75% politics/advocacy.
After all, no matter how good your solutions to those problems, you've got to persuade companies to adopt them voluntarily - or legislators to force them to.
Tough to find that skill set.